DEVELOPMENT.adoc

1. Architecture

The Chrome and Electron versions of the app share the exact same UI code, but in both systems the UI code must communicate with a separate background system. We use fulcro-devtools-remote to abstract this away.

Fulcro App <-> Fulcro Devtool Remote
Fulcro Devtool Remote <-> Dev Tools UI: serialized

See Fulcro Devtool Remote for more details.

2. Building

Building MacOS Electron releases is done as follows:

$ npm install
$ cd shells/electron
$ vi package.json     # Update version number
$ yarn
$ cd ../..
$ shadow-cljs release electron-main electron-renderer
$ cd shells/electron
$ electron-builder build -m

See the Makefile for other builds

3. Chrome

First, make sure to update the version number in shells/chrome/manifest.edn.

Then build the zip file that can be uploaded to the Chrome store:

npm install
script/release-chrome

The result will be in a zip file in releases.